SHRINE VISITORS TO SHANGHAI
Class of Fourteen Inducted Into Masonic Order:
Dinner at Park Hotel
The Islam Temple Ceremonial
Divan, consisting of Shriners from
San Francisco, and others from
neighbouring cities, arrived yesterday at 7.30 a.m., at the Shanghai
North Railway Station for the pui-
pose of conducting a ceremonial in
the afternoon, at which a class of
fourteen    were    inducted    into    the
Forty-six persons, including a
number of ladies were in the group,
which was met by about forty local
Shriners, who were headed by Mr
Mark L. Moody, President of Nomad
Oasis,  the local Shrine club.
Yesterday's programme v/as a bus>
one for the visitors, who after a
business meeting with officerf <n
Nomad Oasis, were taken for a sightseeing trip round Shanghai, iftei
which they were entertained at
tiffin in the American Club. The
ceremonial was held at 2 p.m. ir. the
I.R.C. clubrooms and the tradii mal
banquet in the Park Hotel at 8.30
p.m.
The ladies spent the jnorauK- ana
afternoon   shopping   and   sights   ;ns,
of local Shriners. The ladies ^ere
entertained with Chinese lunch al '-he
Sun Ya restaurant, had tea in Yip's
Garden at Kiangwan and dinnej- in
tne Park Hotel, a function separate
from the Shriners' dinner.
This morning, (here will be furths-
shopping parties and sightseeing
tours, more informal than yesteiday.
The party leave this afternoon iu
the President Hoover for Manila,
where another ceremonial will be
staged, they having concluded one
lest week in Tientsin.
About 85 Shriners attended the
tiffin in the American Club at which
Mr. Moody welcomed the. visitors and
then introduced various' prominent
Shriners who were present. Great
amusement was caused during the
introductions when the San Francisco
and Los Angeles members present
were subjected to praise and gentle
sarcasm respectively, until finally one
man from Los Angeles rose and begged the Shanghailanders not to believe "that so many things could be
wrong with Los Angeles. His re- j
marks   were   greeted   with   roars   of I
Induction of Candidates
The Divan consisted of the following:—Messrs. John D. McGilvray.
Potentate (three times potentate of
Islam Temple); Mr. James S. "Sunny
Jim" McCandless, Chief Rabban
(Past Imperial Potentate); Mr. John
H. Young, Assistant Rabban, (Potentate of Aloha Temple); Dr. Howard
M. McKinley, Priest; Mr. Roy
Howard, Treasurer; Mr. A. L. Vogt.
First Ceremonial Master.
The following candidates, having
passed through the prerequisites of
Masonry to become Shriners, duly
were inducted:—Messrs. T. C. Chang,
T. H. P. Chao, R. Hathaway, C. F.
King, A. Peterson. R. Thompson, K.
K. Wang, W. P. Yang, J. F. Stevens,
B. A. Deutsch, A. J. Avramow, Walter   Nyi,   and  H.  Evangelista.
The Members of the Nomad Oasis
Patrol who had charge of the Ceremonial were:—Messrs. A. C. Davis
(Captain),   B.   Jenkins,   W.   Golding,
C. E. Horsman, T. J. Holt, I\ H.
Wythe. W. J. Fronk, R. O. Scott, S. G.
Kirkland, N. Westwood, C. V. Manner, and C. J. Doughty, while the
officers are:—Mr. Mark L. Moodie,
r-.M.'f- Mi- w J Fronk, Vice-
President; and Mr. W. Van Buskirk,
Secretary-Treasurer.
At the dinner held in the Park
Hotel,, more than 90 members of
Nomad Oasis acted as hosts to the
Divan, the fourteen new members
of the Club, and other Shriners who
are casual visitors to Shanghai.
After the formal toast to the
respective rulers, Mr. James S. McCandless, Illustrious Past Imperial
Potentate, offered the toast of the
Imperial Council, while others included "Shrinedom" (Mr. Howard P.
McKinley, Illustrious Past Potentate),
the "Shrine in China" (Mr. C. E.
Horsman), "Islam Temple" (Mr. John
D. McGilvray, Illustrious Past Potentate), "Recorder's Task" (Mr. John
A. Young, Illustrious Potentate, Aloha
Temple), the "New Class" (Mr. R.
Hathaway), "Nomad Oasis" (Mr. C.
M. Wentworth) and "Passed Within
the Unseen Temple" (Mr. George
Fitch).
TWO MEN INJURED IN
HOUSE COLLAPSE
A fractured spine and fractured
ribs were the injuries sustained by
two Chinese yesterday evening when
the drying stage of a house collapsed.
The accident occurred just before 5.30
p.m. and the house concerned was 408
Hankow Road. The drying stage was
at the rear of the house. Both injured
men were taken to the Lester Chinese
Hospital.
POLITICAL    DEBATE    LEADS
TO   UNIVERSITY   RIOT
A riot involving 100 students broke
out in Chinan University, in Chenju,
a suburb of Shanghai, yesterday afternoon following a political debate. The
police were called up and order was
eventually restored. It could not be
ascertained whether any arrests were